Closed Bug 25530 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

[FEATURE] Double right-click to load link in new window

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: aaronlev, Assigned: german)

References

Details

On Windows systems most users don't have a middle mouse button.
It would be nice if a double right click, or both left and right buttons at the
same time loaded a link into a new browser window.
*** Bug 25531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving all UE/UI bugs to new component: User Interface: Design Feedback
UE/UI component will be deleted.
Component: UE/UI → User Interface: Design Feedback
IE does this with shift. Since I open-in-new-window much more often than I 
save, I'd like to have an option in mozilla to reassign shift-clicking a link 
to any option on the context menu.
reassign it to german for an investation. cc bdonohoe
Assignee: shuang → german
Does this depend on bug 27364?
QA Assigning non-confidential New/Assigned User Interface: Design Feedback bugs 
to Matthew Thomas (mpt@mailandnews.com).

Matthew Thomas is now the QA owner for the User Interface: Design Feedback 
component. (Bugs that involve UI issues in the Netscape-branded Mozilla browser 
should continue be QA assigned to elig@netscape.com.)
QA Contact: elig → mpt
looks like this will not be in for this version of main feature. Set to FUTURE 
so we won't forget.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → LATER
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: LATER → ---
reopening (already marked FUTURE...)
This should be re-evaluated when bug 12056 is fixed, as 12056 (combined with 
`Open in New Window' in the context menu) may make this unnecessary.

Also, beginning users often transfer their knowledge about opening icons and 
mistakenly double-click on links to open them; opening multitudes of new windows 
if they make this mistake is probably not a good idea.
Depends on: 12056
Let me know if you want me to look into this, if we decide it should be fixed 
(I'm guessing nothing will happen to this bug otherwise, for obvious reasons)

fwiw, I don't think we need to fix this.  Double right clicking, while it's a 
little faster and easier, still requires as many clicks as choosing the item 
from the context menu.  And double right click is a very awkward action...
Double right-click sounds awkward to me, too - and besides, existing Windows 
browsers (such as Opera and IE) are using Shift-click for opening new windows.

IMHO this should be resolved as INVALID or WONTFIX.
I agree with Eli's, Balke's and Antti's assesments. Marking [wontfix]
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Verifying Wontfix.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: User Interface Design → Browser-General
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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